Feminine
Meaning

  1. (feminine) illness; disease; ailment (an abnormal medical condition)
  2. (feminine, uncountable) illness; disease (a state of bad health)
  3. (feminine, figuratively) illness; disease (abnormal condition or attitude)

Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/doˈẽ.sɐ/
Etymology

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese doença, from Latin dolentia, from dolēns (“suffering”). By surface analysis, doer (“to hurt”) + -ença.

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